A mailing list thread in September 2013 discussed changing the string returned by the non-POSIX 'uname -o' option. Nothing ever came of this because there was no agreement as to what the string should be.
Make the string configurable so that people can decide for themselves. Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <[email protected]> --- coreutils/Config.src | 8 ++++++++ coreutils/uname.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/coreutils/Config.src b/coreutils/Config.src index 1ec3a0a..3315623 100644 --- a/coreutils/Config.src +++ b/coreutils/Config.src @@ -636,6 +636,14 @@ config UNAME help uname is used to print system information. +config UNAME_OSNAME + string "Operating system name" + default "GNU/Linux" + depends on UNAME + help + Sets the operating system name reported by uname -o. The + default is "GNU/Linux". + config UNEXPAND bool "unexpand" default y diff --git a/coreutils/uname.c b/coreutils/uname.c index 1c6aa5f..fd677d2 100644 --- a/coreutils/uname.c +++ b/coreutils/uname.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ typedef struct { struct utsname name; char processor[sizeof(((struct utsname*)NULL)->machine)]; char platform[sizeof(((struct utsname*)NULL)->machine)]; - char os[sizeof("GNU/Linux")]; + char os[sizeof(CONFIG_UNAME_OSNAME)]; } uname_info_t; static const char options[] ALIGN1 = "snrvmpioa"; @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ int uname_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) #endif strcpy(uname_info.processor, unknown_str); strcpy(uname_info.platform, unknown_str); - strcpy(uname_info.os, "GNU/Linux"); + strcpy(uname_info.os, CONFIG_UNAME_OSNAME); #if 0 /* Fedora does something like this */ strcpy(uname_info.processor, uname_info.name.machine); -- 2.4.3 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
